In Oct 2-3, President HOU Jianguo attended the meeting of Kavli Prize Committee Nanoscience 2011-2012 in Oslo, Norway.
The Kavli Prize is a partnership between The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, The Kavli Foundation (US) and The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
The Kavli Prize was established to recognize outstanding scientific research, honor highly creative scientists, promote public understanding of scientists and their work and foster international cooperation among scientists.
The Kavli Prize recognizes scientists for their seminal advances in three research areas: astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. The Kavli Prize consists of USD 1,000,000 in each of the scientific fields. In addition to the prize money the laureates receive a scroll and a gold medal. The Kavli Prize is awarded every second year by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
The agreement to establish the Kavli Prize was signed in 2005 by the founder of The Kavli Foundation, Fred Kavli, Kristin Clemet, Norwegian Minister of Education and Research and Jan Fridthjof Bernt, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The Kavli Prize was awarded for the first time in 2008.
The members of Prize Committee Nanoscience 2011-2012 include Professor Arne Skjeltorp of University of Oslo, Professor Paul Alivisatos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of United States, Professor Evelyn Hu of Harvard University, Professor Klaus Kern of Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research of Germany besides HOU.